Late Treatment Effects and Cancer Survivor Care in the Young

Thorsten Langer is Professor in Pediatric Oncology for patient-centered long-term follow-up research at the University of Luebeck. Professor Langer graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Justus-Liebig University Giessen in 1995. Commencing in 1994 he trained as a pediatrician at the University Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. He joined also the research team of Prof. Beck and became also a very active and permanent member of Prof. Becks research team. He has been registered as a pediatrician since 2004 and as a pediatric hemato-oncologist since 2008. In 2005 he defended his PhD thesis on "Late effects after antineoplastic treatments in children and adolescents" using the German Late Effects Surveillance System clinical database for his research. Since 2007 he has chaired the working group "Late Effects Surveillance System" (LESS), and since 2011, the working party "Long-Term Follow-up After Childhood Cancer". In 2012 he became chair of the German Society of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology (GPOH) research committee "Long-Term Complications". J.D. Beck remained after his retirement a member of these research groups of Thorsten Langer. In the Pan European research group PanCareLIFE Thorsten Langer chaired the work package "clinical and genetic risk factors for ototoxicty", contributed to the International Guideline Harmonisation Group and to the German AWMF guideline Long-term follow up guidelines after childhood cancer.